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PDF on File System mysteriously disappeared without a trace, Windows 10
On my computer, I have a few different drives, C:/ (where my OS is stored and runs, SSD), a X:/ (Where I store my games and other things that benefit well from an SSD), and a Z:/ (HDD, for documents ...
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Does CHKDSK have any volume size limitations?
A colleague of mine mentioned he thinks CHKDSK, since it's so old, probably doesn't support very large target volumes. For example, if you wanted to run CHKDSK on a single, super large volume like say,...
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How to create "ghost-drive" without change the directory?
I want to decrease the load from my computer's hard drive and thought of a solution that might be ideal but I do not know if there is a way to implement it.
I would be happy to choose specific paths ...
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Moving from HDD to SSD - facing some issues (GPT protective partition)
I am trying to move my pc from old HDD into new SSD
I put the new SSD in , installed windows 10
Then I connected the old HDD into the new windows so I can move the data from the old drive.
using USB 3 ...
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Win10 doesn't see changes made on HDD by Win7
I want to copy tens of gigabytes of data from my old Win7 computer to my new Win10 computer. By Wifi this is very slow. Hence I pulled out the Win10 HDD, plugged it into Win7, copied the data, and ...
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Will all programs run the same if moved to D drive?
My D drive has 931 GB and my C drive only has 221 GB and I'm running out of space. Will it be safe to use something like AOMEI Backupper and move everything to my D drive or are there programs I must ...
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How do I stop Windows from stopping write access to an unmounted EFI partition on a disk that is not used by Windows?
Setting: The computer has two or more physical hard drives. One is entirely dedicated to a Linux installation, one entirely to Windows. Both can be booted up. The system is configured for EFI booting.
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Files copied to hard drive via USB adapter disappear when booting from the drive
I had a large amount of data on one laptop (A) that needed to be moved to another laptop (B). Both laptops are running Windows 10 x64.
I removed the SATA hard drive from Laptop B and connected it to ...
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Why isn't the directory size the same as the sum of its children for Windows 10
I have a directory that contains a ton of music that it showing weird file sizes in Windows 10. When I click on the directory containing all the music, it shows 809GB and over 164k files. When I ...
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Cannot Move Files to Hard Drive/Not Enough Room on Destination File System- External HDD with Plenty of Space
I have a working WD 4TB Hard Drive which was recently removed from a NAS. I performed a DOD (0x000) overwrite with a NTFS format, using the disk utility DiskWipe.exe - a free disk cleaning utility, ...
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Is it possible to make the OS reroute from C:/path to D:/path?
I lack space on a drive. I cannot simply split the data I store between two drives or the applications using it will fail.
Is there a way to split the data and have the OS (Windows 10) take care of ...
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What file system does Microsoft Reserved Partition contain?
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What file system does this partition contain? (NTFS, FAT32 or something else?)
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Yesterday, I have used ddrescue to recover a slow and generally end-of-life hard disk drive.
The drive (...
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Win 10 Home - change drive for System Volume Information
I have several external hard drives and I wish to move a System Volume Information folder from Drive G to Drive F, however that is being prevented by system protection. Any attempt to Delete, Move or ...
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External HDD not assigned drive letter on Windows
I have an external 5TB drive (Seagate Expansion Desk). It has 2 partitions (FAT32 & NTFS) with valuable files. I may have unplugged it before without doing it "safely" on Windows 10. It is now not ...
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Microsoft reserved partition (Unable to detect file system!) + CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED error
EDIT : I finally did this actually it is a little long story. I install windows 8 and i had same issues after one rebooting but after another reboot it can boot and i install bitdefender there is no ...
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